Kyle Drabek is the King of That Thing!

After picking up three wins in his first three starts Kyle Drabek had to wait until his 10th appearance to get another, but it was a gem. He threw a complete game shutout of the Stone Crabs scattering just five hits over nine innings. He struck out seven and walked just one in the game.

The Threshers offense staked him to an early lead by loading the bases with no outs in the first inning, but were only able to get one run across before the inning was over. The game remained close until the seventh when the Clearwater offense was able to add another two runs with doubles from Joel Naughton, Jesus Villegas-Andino and Arlon Quiroz to give the team some breathing room. They added an insurance run in the eighth on Michael Durant double that scored Time Kennelly who had been running at the crack of the bat, and that was all the team would need.

Things got momentarily dicey in the ninth inning when the Stone Crabs got back-to-back singles with two outs, but Kyle Drabek got the next batter to fly out to center field and secured the win.

On a side note:

Kyle Drabek picked up the SCHMIDT LIST player of the game award for his pitching masterpiece.